Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Entry Points

For a business taking the first few steps into SOA, opening your doors to customers and partners as a way to easily interact with your company is of high importance. Enabling exceptional connectivity through your SOA you can deliver a consistent user experience regardless of what business channel they choose. Also, by linking your own business units or divisions across the multiple parts of your company, you can build a foundation for success and benefit from the agility of an SOA approach. IBM entry strategy to SOA through service connectivity can help:

• Ensure seamless flow of messages from anywhere at anytime using anything.
• Execute broad business processes that span your company and out to business partners.
• Build trusted relationships with existing and new partners.
• Scale your business to become more flexible and dynamic.
• Deliver a consistent user experience regardless of channel or device.
• Simplify existing applications to focus on business logic instead of connectivity.
• Increase access to existing functions without changes to applications.
• Reduce the maintenance needed when your business changes.

Service connectivity is a key part of IT strategies for every business today. Businesses are looking at SOA to help their business become more flexible and responsive. For SOA the Connectivity Entry Point is fundamental to the success of a SOA strategy and deployment.

IBM can help you develop a strategy for SOA that focuses on service connectivity. Through a lifecycle approach we can help you model, assemble, deploy and manage your tactical SOA-based projects to help connect your systems in a way that easily grows as you grow. We also can help you establish SOA governance guidelines to enhance organizational efficiency. Service Connectivity encompasses a range of product offerings including:

• IBM WebSphere® MQ provides a reliable messaging backbone for applications and services to help you to fully leverage your existing software and hardware.
• IBM WebSphere Message Broker delivers an integration-based Enterprise Service Bus providing connectivity and universal data transformation for both standard and non-standards-based applications and services to power your SOA.
• IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides Web services connectivity, JMS™ messaging and service oriented integration to power your SOA.
• IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances offer an innovative, pragmatic approach to harness the power of SOA while simultaneously enabling you to leverage the value of your existing application, security, and networking infrastructure investments.
• WebSphere Services Registry and Repository provides a quick and easy solution to publish, find, enrich, manage and govern services and policies in your SOA
• Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager simplifies application integration using many forms of credentials, helps to reduce administrative costs and facilitates compliance.
• Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA monitors your SOA life cycle to ensure high-availability and performance.
• WebSphere Adapters delivers technology and business application adapters that quickly and easily service-enable applications without writing custom code.
• WebSphere Partner Gateway provides a centralized and consolidated B2B trading partner and transaction management to accurately manage process and data integration.
• WebSphere Transformation Extender is a universal data transformation and validation engine for addressing the challenges of integrating enterprise systems and information with a codeless, graphical approach to development
• WebSphere Business Events helps detect, evaluate, and respond to the impact of business events based on the discovery of actionable event patterns.

To get started today, talk to your IBM representative about your IT goals or contact IBM directly at soa@us.ibm.com.